The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

By Andrea Brady

This collection of essays examines the idea of the future in early modern European literature, politics, religion, science, and social life. Investigating how both elite and popular writers represented their access to or control over the future, it proposes new insights into one of the defining characteristics of modernity.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041599540X
• ISBN13: 9780415995405
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"